Pleasant View Lodge resident and war veteran Norman Angers, 100, signed copies of his Autobiography The Life and Times of WWII Veteran Norman James Anger on Saturday.

Norman and his wife Eleanor Anger decided the book needed to be written to tell the long life lived by the war veteran.

“We thought we better do his story then so that the grandchildren and great-grandchildren would have something down in writing about what their grandpa did and accomplished,” said Anger.

Eleanor said the duo started writing the book in 2008, just before Norman’s 90th birthday.

The book follows Norman from when he was growing up in Saskatchewan to when his parents packed up and moved to Peace River country, Alta due to the drought in 1930.

“They heard Peace River country was blooming, so they moved up there,” said Eleanor.

Eleanor said his family their land behind in Vanguard, Sask. when they decided to take the five-hour drive in a Model T Ford Coupe.

“Four days after we arrived, I turned 12-years-old,” said Norman.

Norman said when the war started in 1939; he and his brother with even more men took a train to Grande Prairie, Alta. where he started his training. Shortly after, he was sent to join the Winnipeg Grenadiers where he became the rank Corporal.

“A company of us Grenadiers were sent to New York by train to pick up a load of German prisoners,” said Norman. “We brought the prisoners back to a prison camp in the foothills of Alberta.”

The story also tells readers what happened after the war and how Norman went back to his home life.

“Returning home after the war life was not easy,” Norman said.

The duo put posters up in town to let the community know about the event, as well as got some down to Onaway and other places Norman has resided in the past.

Eleanor said she met Norman in 1981 and had heard bits and pieces of his life over the years that she found intriguing. In 1998, they married and have been together since then.

“We just grew together,” said Eleanor.

The couple has been living in Pleasant View Lodge for four years in Mayerthorpe.